[295] Salary in kind.
[296] The second text gives "Let thy face [be shining] when thou makest a feast. Verily that which cometh out of the store doth not enter [?], but bread is apportioned; he that is niggardly of face is remorseful; [?] his belly is empty. He that remembereth a man is kind unto him in the years after the staff [of power?]." The last expression may mean "after the loss of authority."
[297] Variant "beseech." The meaning of the section is not certain.
[298] To be in an ambiguous position. (?)
[299] Or "then all thy ways shall have the lead."
[300] Ba, in Egyptian: the person who has learned good conduct (the ignorant cannot) pours benediction upon the soul of him who set the example of it, when he finds himself profited on earth by the practice thereof.
[301] The word presupposes education, as often.
[302] A frequent collocation of words; as for instance, following the mention of a royal person.
[303] Amakh. See note to Section 41.
[304] The words "a son" seem inserted.